Summer Travel Club Round Up
Apologies, we have been a little delayed with the follow up blog from the last few months
In June, the group travelled to Singapore where we took in all the attractions of this large Asian city. These included:
Maindi Wildlife Reserve- https://www.mandai.com/en/plan-your-visit/know-before-you-go.html
Singapore Botanic Garden- https://www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/visit-us
We then chatted about how Singapore is a popular stopover destination when going to Australia and other far away places. There are free tours of the city available which you can learn more about on this website:
It was also highlighted how this is close to Malaysia. Although we were limited on accessibility information on Malaysia, fellow All4Inclusion member Carinder has been busy adding lots of places onto Wheelmap. Other useful websites to learn more about Malaysia are shown below:
July saw us head north to the Land of Fire and Ice, Iceland . We began our trip in the capital, Rejkavick which has a lot of good accessibility information on
around-reykjavik/accessible-
Reykjavik
Before heading to South Iceland which has many natural wonders. Some recommendations from this region are
Places to visit:
Urriðafoss
Seljalandsfoss (the path to the foot of the waterfall is level, although the walk behind it is not accessible)
Skógar / Skógafoss
Reynisfjara black sand beach (paved path from the parking area to the viewing platform)
Places to Stay
Hotel Geysir, by the Geysir geothermal area on the Golden Circle
Hotel Rangá, near Hella (a convenient base for the western South Coast)
Fosshotel Glacier Lagoon, between Skaftafell and Jökulsárlón in the southeast
Some good websites are also
August saw another long haul trip. This time we headed stateside. While we were more limited in terms of access information due to limited responses we managed to do some enjoyable bus tours of several cities across the country and the various train tours on offer. There are many more journeys to explore and this helpful video shows this
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